Veloxis Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay more than $46 million to resolve criminal and civil allegations that it used kickbacks to drive prescriptions and purchases of Envarsus XR, its kidney-transplant drug. According to the Department of Justice, the resolution includes a deferred prosecution agreement tied to a criminal information filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts,…
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The latest entry in D.C. Circuit appeal No. 25-7156 is procedural rather than merits-based, but it is still worth watching. On August 18, 2026, the clerk’s office entered an order scheduling oral argument for Tuesday, October 13, 2026. View full case on Docket Alarm.

Because this is a scheduling order, the court did not decide any substantive legal issue,…
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Apple has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00437 on August 17, 2026. At this stage, the publicly available docket information is limited, but the filing itself is noteworthy for patent litigators and in-house IP teams tracking how major technology companies are using PTAB proceedings as part of broader enforcement and…
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The legal fallout is still building from a federal judge’s decision to throw out a settlement in President Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, concluding the agreement had “no basis in law.” The ruling did more than unwind a headline-grabbing deal: it opened the door to sanctions, ethics referrals, and renewed scrutiny of how government lawyers and private counsel…
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So next week starts the annual ILTACON. It’s one of the biggest legal tech shows. Maybe the biggest. And like everything over the top it’s a love hate relationship. To paraphrase a famous authort “Until you go to ILTACON and behold it with your own eyes, you ain’t never been nowhere and you ain’t seen nothing.”The 2026 version starts next…
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A federal judge in California has sided with the federal government in a closely watched fight over the Santa Ynez pipeline system, rejecting the state’s attempt to block an order requiring Sable Offshore to keep the system operating under the Defense Production Act. The decision gives the Trump administration an early win in a dispute that sits at the intersection…
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The SEC’s new fraud case against former executives of subprime auto lender Tricolor stands out as one of the week’s most consequential enforcement developments, even though it was announced on August 18. At the center of the action is the agency’s allegation that senior insiders engaged in misconduct tied to Tricolor’s collapse, which reportedly erased roughly $1.9 billion in value…
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Beyond Hallucination: Semantic Laundering, Semantic Stewardship, and Prompting Aikido in Human-AI CollaborationAbstract:The primary conversation surrounding generative artificial intelligence centers on factual fabrication: hallucination. While hallucination matters, it represents a crude and easily detected failure mode. This paper identifies a second, quieter epistemic risk: semantic laundering. Large language models produce exceptionally fluent, coherent, and orderly prose that silently smooths…
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Clifford Chance in July announced the launch of a new knowledge management platform, developed in partnership with Epiq Advisory for Law Firms and Microsoft. Legal IT Insider spoke with Clifford Chance’s global head […]
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Two recent federal criminal actions show the Justice Department continuing to press aggressively in both competition and health care enforcement. In Oklahoma City, a federal jury convicted Sioux Erosion Control Inc., along with one executive and one employee, for participating in a roughly $100 million bid-rigging and price-fixing conspiracy tied to public transportation contracts. In a separate matter, prosecutors unsealed…
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A federal appeals court has blocked above-ground construction of President Donald Trump’s proposed $400 million White House ballroom, preserving a preliminary injunction that prevents the project from moving forward while the administration seeks further review. The decision puts a high-profile spotlight on a basic constitutional question: whether the executive branch can unilaterally authorize a major structural change to the White…
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